CSULA Philosophy 532 - Theory of Knowledge

A quick note: The readings linked under each day are the readings assigned that day, that you should read for the next week. So, by Day N, you should have read every reading assigned on each previous day, but not the readings for Day N. I'm also not going to put up my lesson plans for each class until after I've taught the class (I like to have some surprises).

.....Syllabus

Day One

.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Readings
.......Gettier - Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
.......Goldman - Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge
.......Zagzebski - The Inescapability of Gettier Problems


Day Two

.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout
.....Readings
.......BonJour - Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation Not available online; copies given out in class
.......Klein - Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons


Day Three

.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout
.....Readings
.......David - Truth as the Epistemic Goal


Day Four

Please note: The syllabus has been revised -- the schedule of assigned readings is changed.
.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout
.....Readings
.......Jones - Why Do We Value Knowledge?
.......Zagzebski - The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good


Day Five

Please note: You have an assignment due on August 7: turn in a two page abstract of your (proposed) research paper for this course. The syllabus has also been slightly revised.
.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout
.....Readings
.......Weinberg, Nichols, Stich - Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
.......Sosa - A Defense of Intuitions in Philosophy


Day Six

.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout
.....Readings
.......Cummins - Reflection on Reflective Equilibrium (not available online, but handed out in class, from DePaul & Ramsey, eds., Rethinking Intuition)
.......Talbot - Epistemic Intuitions


HERE IS THE ABSTRACT OF MY PAPER ("Epistemic Intuitions").


Day Seven

.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout
.....No readings for next week


Day Eight

.....Readings
.......Lycan - On the Gettier Problem Problem
.......Passed out in class: Weinberg - What's Epistemology For? from Hetherington, S., ed. Epistemology Futures
.......Please note: The Weinberg reading is different from what is on the syllabus for this week (but hopefully better).


Day Nine

.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout
.....Readings
.......Passed out in class: Excerpts from Bishop & Trout Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

For Eddie: Reber - Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge

Day Ten

.....Lesson Plan / Class Notes
.....Handout